The Highlands 4-H dog club is hosting the first statewide 4-H Dog Conference at 4-H Camp Cloverleaf in Lake Placid Aug. 7-9. ...more

August 6, 2009

Linda Walsh and Maverick stand in a field at Camp Cloverleaf. Gerard Thanhoffer and a dozen other dog owners crowd around on both sides. Close. Closer. The German shepherd doesn't spook. He watches carefully, he understands it was a test, and therefore he didn't mind. ...more

October 13, 2008

Cruising in on the driveway into Camp Cloverleaf Thursday morning, long before you could see the children learning to shoot clay pigeons whizzing by at 55 mph, you heard the pop-pop-pop of their shotguns. ...more

July 25, 2008

LAKE PLACID — Camp Cloverleaf, Highlands County 4-H's overnight camp, got a surprise –– and what is described as a "substantial" financial gift –– from a donor that will benefit 4-H children in the county and the state. That's the assessment of John Alleyne, director of the Highlands County Extension Service, of the gift left in the will of a wealthy man who recently passed away. Kristin Bird, coordinator of 4-H Resources and Alumni Affairs at the University of Florida in Gainesville, agreed. She said the amount of the gift is "substantial," but it could not be released publicly for at least two to three weeks, if at all. ...more

June 4, 2008

LAKE PLACID — Nobody would have known from a distance that Habitat for Humanity volunteer John Boyden from Windham, Maine, was working hard in the midday sun with a splint on his thumb. Boyden had earlier pounded his thumb with a hammer and broken the finger nail. He said, with a grin, that the splint was only a precautionary measure, but was needed since he tended to hammer the thumb again and again. Boyden is one of more than two dozen nomadic RVers or CARE-A-Vanners who are visiting Highlands County for two weeks, while building homes with the local Habit for Humanity. ...more

January 9, 2008

SEBRING — How did Roger Schoenstein, a retired Latin teacher from Colorado Springs, wind up volunteering to build new two houses on Shelton Street in DeSoto City? There's a newsletter that goes out to Habitat volunteers. And there's this group of RVers who picked sunny central Florida. "We're staying at Camp Cloverleaf," said Schoenstein. That's the 4-H facility on Lake Francis, near Lake Placid. Habitat for Humanity builds 22 houses a year in Highlands County. ...more

December 17, 2007